In this weeks video we meet Hilde and Michel, an intrepid couple who have constructed a stunning DIY tiny house on wheels in order to help facilitate a life of travel and adventure.

Together with his wife Trish, old-school surfer Kevin has constructed two incredible tiny house Airbnb's on a spectacular section overlooking a surf beach on the wild west coast of New Zealand.

One of the things that I've always loved about tiny houses is the wide variety of people who call them home. In this weeks episode we meet Lauren, a young doctor who has built a stunning tiny house on wheels to give her a cosy place to live while she travels New Zealand gaining experience working at various hospitals around the country.

This family have created a stunning off-the-grid tiny home for themselves! Adam and Michelle are a build dream team. One a builder and the other an interior designer, between them they have created a spectacular home, perfectly designed for family living.

This spectacular high-spec tiny house is designed to be totally off-the-grid and is absolutely packed full of brilliant design features. Built by owner Mark, this DIY, handcrafted home has been incredibly well designed and constructed using top quality materials. 

In this weeks episode we meet Jason and Summer who live in an absolutely stunning, modern,  off-the-grid tiny house on wheels. This home is packed full of clever design features, wonderful art, and an impressive solar system which keeps their home powered.

This spectacular tiny house, situated on a multi generational family farm, is absolutely breathtaking. Constructed largely  from a mixture of reclaimed materials and beautiful timbers which have been found on the farm, this home is absolutely packed with charm.  Ruby grew up on this farm. The family has a deep connection to this land and it's where Ruby wanted to deepen her roots by building her own home.

In this weeks episode we meet Mike and Alison, an inspiring couple who have transformed their tiny house into a stunning Airbnb property, which has enabled them to keep their own family home.

In this weeks episode we meet a beautiful young family who chose to sell their conventional home in the city, move to the country and build a tiny house, downsizing their home, but upsizing their quality of life!

In this episode we take a look back over 2020 and some of the very best tiny house design we have seen on the show this year. 2020 has been a crazy year, filled with challenges and it's so exciting to see human creativity and ingenuity shining through.

It’s hard to believe that it’s already Christmas time again! In this years Living Big in a Tiny House Christmas special, we celebrate the season with heart-warming messages from our tiny house family around the globe.

In this weeks episode we visit Donna who has turned an idyllic corner of her New Zealand farm into a stunning glamping retreat. Designed as a glamorous getaway for couples, this picturesque corner is now a dream escape!

This incredible off-the-grid tiny house truck has been perfectly designed to be a comfortable home on the move! Solar-powered and mounted on the back of a brand new truck, this home is ready to go anywhere! Jude made the decision to construct her own tiny house truck after many years of living on the road in campers. 

There’s nothing quite like a handcrafted home. A place where people have poured all their love and hard work into creating a unique and beautiful house that’s totally their own. This exquisitely built tiny house is just one of those homes. 

We are constantly amazed at the weird and wonderful features that people build into their tiny houses. From beer dispensers hidden in the sofa to full sized pizza ovens built into living rooms, tiny houses are an opportunity to create something truly special and unique. This video highlights some of our favourite tiny house features from homes that we have visited over the years.

There’s a saying in the tiny house world that home is where you park it, but not all parking spots are created equal and this spectacular, modern tiny house has found an incredible spot to call home on an elevated hillside with breath-taking panoramic views!

This stunning, modern tiny house on wheels is wonderfully paired with charming rustic features. In this weeks episode we meet Lisa, who together with help from her brother Glen, a professional builder has constructed her dream tiny house on wheels.

If you love the idea of living in a tiny house but are worried about the idea of starting a family or having children in a tiny house, then this video has been created for you! In this weeks episode, we take a look at some of our absolute favourite family tiny houses and the clever ways that people have designed their tiny homes to enable their children to thrive!

This tiny house design is just as unique as it is stunning! When building a tiny house on wheels, you’re working within a limited space and for that reason, the more time that you can spend on the design of your home, the more likely you are to create a home that will truly meet your needs and that’s exactly the case with this incredibly well thought out tiny house.

If you’re a big fan of modern, minimalist design then you’re going to love this tiny house. On the exterior, it’s striking all-black, trapezoidal design is incredibly eye-catching. The interior is filled with very clever spatial design and forms a wonderfully comfortable home.

So many of us aspire to own a home close to the water and it doesn’t get any closer than this! Inspired by the incredible float homes of British Columbia, this house boat in Auckland, New Zealand really is a dream home on the water!

Every now and then I visit a home which I can tell is just perfect for someone, and this is one of those places. Matilda has lived in this tiny house on wheels for the past four years, and it has become the ideal home for both her and her three dogs.

In this weeks episode we explore a beautifully crafted tiny house that has allowed a dynamic young couple to get onto their first step on the housing ladder. Especially in a city like Auckland, where the average house price is close to one million dollars, it’s hard for young people to get into their own first home. For that reason, increasing numbers of young people are turning to alternative living and tiny houses to make their start in life.

In this weeks episode we visit an incredible DIY tiny house which has been constructed to include an ultra-clever kid-safe sleeping loft design. DIY builds are often by favourite homes. You can really see where people have poured their hearts and souls into building their own home and that’s certainly the case with this stunning tiny home!

This week we explore an incredible colonial cottage style tiny house which has remarkably been constructed for only NZ$8,000 (US$5000). Almost entirely constructed out of reclaimed materials, this home is packed with a whole lot of style and character! 

In this weeks episode we visit an incredible tiny house which has been constructed out of an old grain silo and transformed into a whimsical yellow submarine themed dwelling. For those who love super creative projects, this is a must see video!

In this weeks episode we travel to the very southern edge of New Zealand’s North Island to visit an off-the-grid shipping container home which has been transported to an absolutely breathtaking location! This home is completely off-the-grid with astounding views looking over the ocean towards the mountains of the South Island.

One of the things which has always drawn me to the tiny house movement is the way that tiny houses can help to people achieve greater financial freedom. In this weeks video, we meet Michelle, an inspiring solo-mother of four boys who has constructed a beautiful tiny house for herself now that her children have left home, enabling her to save more money and enjoy a better quality of life.

In this weeks video we visit a stunning modern small home which has been constructed using 3 x 20ft shipping containers. Situated near Lake Taupo, New Zealand, this home is built on a beautiful elevated section with commanding views over the lake and to the mountains beyond.

In this episode we visit an incredible 150 year old sailing ship which has been hoisted into the trees and turned into a pirate ship treehouse. This is just one of the incredible accomodation spaces that can be found at Tanglewood Retreat in Auckland, New Zealand and this week we will be exploring them all!

After 15 years of working as an architect in Hong Kong, Bobbie is certainly no stranger to small space design. Having returned to New Zealand and after going through a separation, she decided it was time to put her design skills to the test and create a wonderful, functional tiny home for her and her two children

With all the hassle and stress of modern living, chances are there has been a time in your life where you wished you could leave the pressures of the world behind and escape to an idyllic, off-the-grid cabin amongst the calming powers of nature. In this weeks episode, we meet an inspiring couple who did exactly that, building their own incredible cabin by the river.

In this weeks episode, we explore a stunning, modern, urban-industrial style tiny house in Auckland, New Zealand. Described as a tiny mansion, this stunning tiny house is packed full of brilliant design features which make living in this home a dream come true for owners Kyron and Natalia.

This stunning tiny house on wheels is packed full of absolutely game changing design! There is a saying in architecture that you should build your first home for your enemy, the second for your friend and the third for yourself. Good design takes time and practice to get things right, and this home truly is the result of years of experimentation and small space design exploration.

In this weeks episode, we meet Gina, a tiny house builder from the Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand, who has created a stunning, modern tiny house that is packed full of clever design and storage ideas and which even has an amazing library loft with a net floor! Originally designed as a spec home, this tiny house was assembled from different, left over and miss-ordered components from other builds and for that reason is affectionally named ‘The Bitser’. Gina fell so in love with the design that she decided to buy it herself and make it her own.

This week, we take a look back over some of our past episodes to highlight some of the best storage ideas for tiny homes. Even if you’re a minimalist, you still need some stuff! When designing a tiny house, it’s essential that you build in enough storage space so that you can ensure everything in your home has a place. 

In this pilot episode of our Tiny Homes Of The Ancient World series, we travel 2000 years back in time to the Celtic iron-age fort and roundhouses 0f Castell Henllys. So far on Living Big in a Tiny House, we have explored tiny homes and downsized architecture from all over the world. In this new series, we aim to reach far back into our historic and prehistoric past to explore the tiny homes of the ancient world.

In this weeks episode, we venture to the beautiful sub-tropical Northern Rivers region of New South Wales to visit a spectacular off-the-grid tiny house on wheels, situated amongst stunning syntropic, regenerative, food forest gardens. For anyone who has dreamed of going off-the-grid and escaping to paradise to grow food and live simply, this is a video tour you will want to check out!

This stunning Hampton-style tiny house on wheels in Queensland, Australia is absolutely packed full of super clever design ideas! At 12 meters (39ft) in length, this home on wheels is big as far as tiny homes go and each and every inch of the home has been ingeniously utilised to create a beautiful and totally functional home.

In this weeks episode we see an old favourite, with a brand new twist! This stunning tiny house in Queensland, Australia is a wonderful blend of Scandinavian and Japanese design, taking the best of both worlds and creating a beautiful and wonderfully functional home. It’s design is heavily based on the Zen Tiny House in Byron Bay, but this home has some brilliant modifications and unique features which make it a home perfectly suited to owner Leah.

Stunningly constructed and packed full of brilliant small space design ideas, this modern tiny house on wheels situated in Queensland, Australia is definitely one that you’re going to want to check out!

This amazing DIY tiny house is packed full of super clever small space design ideas. Every inch of this home has been thoroughly thought through to create a super functional and beautiful home for its builders / owners, Chris and Mariëlle. The home has also found a really unique parking spot, in a quiet corner of a nudist club!

In a city like Auckland, New Zealand, it can be especially difficult for young people to get a hold on the housing ladder. With an average house price of close to 1 million dollars and rent prices to match many have effectively been priced out of the housing market entirely to the extent that many refer to young New Zealander’s as generation rent. Cam and Amanda are an enterprising young couple who thought outside of the box and decided to get onto the housing ladder by constructing an unconventional first home in the form of a tiny house, which allows them to live now in their own home in one of the worlds most expensive cities.

So many of us dream of a life on the road, and this family turned that dream into a reality by building a tiny house on wheels and traveling full time all over New Zealand. Their home is beautiful, functional, compact and perfectly designed to meet the unique needs of a traveling tiny house on New Zealand’s roads.

It’s crazy times around the globe as the world goes into lockdown in an attempt to stop the spread of Covid-19. In this video, we check in with some of our tiny house family around the globe to see how they are dealing with life in a tiny house while in lockdown / self-isolation / quarantine. 

At 17m2 (182ft2) this house may be tiny, but for owner Stef it’s a huge step onto the housing ladder! Steph was attracted to the idea of living in a tiny house as she was drawn to their simplicity, minimalism and a home which could allow her to focus on other things in life, while also being closer to nature and living a life with a smaller environmental footprint.

Stylish, modern and ultra minimal, this beautiful, architecturally designed tiny house is sure to impress. From is all-black metal exterior to it’s minimalist plywood interior, this solar-powered home is one you are definitely going to want to check out!

If you’ve ever dreamed of building a completely off-the-grid small house with a large enough solar system to even charge an electric car, then this is the home for you! Constructed in Northland, New Zealand, this amazing 40ft shipping container home has it all, including an amazing solar array large enough to not only power the home, but also an electric vehicle.